Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Machine learning as a tool to design special concrete mixes

Dr Rubén-Daniel López .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 24 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

EQUALITY-BASED FORMULATION FOR NON-SMOOTH VIBRATING SYSTEMS

Prof. Christopher Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Nonlinear motion control

Sebastiaan J.A.M. van den Eijnden, Eindhoven University of Technology.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Self-translating science in early modern Europe: preliminary insights from the project Writing Bilingually, 1465–1700

Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

On Reduced Order Models for Jointed Structures

Dr Paolo Tiso, ETH Zurich.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital materials across scales

Mariana Popsecu ( TU Delft).

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Unravelling the Mechanics of MAX Phases: Investigating Deformation and Failure Mechanisms in Single and Polycrystalline Structures

Professor Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The global health focus on early life: origin stories

Michelle Pentecost (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human.

Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Quickest Change Detection Using Mismatched CUSUM

Prof. Sean Meyn, University of Florida.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00-13:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

MONITORING, UNDERSTANDING AND MAINTENANCE OF RAIL DEFECTS ON A EUROPEAN METRO SYSTEM

Dr Stuart Grassie, RailMeasurement Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Battersea Power Station: Restoring an Icon

Sam Youdan, Buro Happold, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?

Cristian Larroulet Philippi (Gonville and Caius College).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Artists as futurists? On the history of durability in art and the making of the future

Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

When will we have intelligent robots?

Professor Jitendra Malik, Berkeley .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TOWARDS QUANTUM COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

Dr Burigede Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Self-assembled active actomyosin gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues

Prof. Anne Bernheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

Rob Morris (IMPA Rio).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk

Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Brain studying brain: the neuro disciplines in the early Cold War

Andreas Killen (The City College of New York, CUNY).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

Professor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Methods for information transfer within populations of structures

Dr Tina Dardeno, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Margaret MacDonald's 1937 pragmatism

Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

Prof. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Acoustic Emission Data Analysis in Concrete Fatigue and Fracture: An Entropic Perspective

Nitin Burud, University of Surrey.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 15 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

Friday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

Prof Sheena Radford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Examples of "control" in research and teaching at Physics

Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Women's medical books in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1500

Montserrat Cabré (Universidad de Cantabria).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinearity in structural dynamics: when does it matter?

Dr Tore Butlin, University of Cambridge Engineering Department.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Conceptual structural design via graphic statics for the generation of materially-efficient, structurally expressive architectural forms.

Dr Marina Konstantatou.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 08 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design

Roger Reed, University of Oxford.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Learning to Predict and to Act - Exploring Structure in World Models and Latent Spaces

Ingmar Posner, Oxford University .

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

A postgenomic quilt: how endophenotypes came to revolutionize the meaning of genetic difference

Daniel Navon (University of California, San Diego).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems

Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech .

Board Room, Baker Building, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Damping from fragmented materials

Dr Jem Rongong, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Strengthening of Existing Structures Using Novel High Performance Materials

Dr Andreas Lampropoulos.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 01 March 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior

Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Whose problem? Gendering infertility in medieval thought, c.1150–1350

Catherine Rider (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

Dr Maria Christophorou.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The acoustics of bouncing: drumsticks, impact hammers and church bells

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

On the Assessment and Design of Compressed Structures

Carlo Olivieri, Pegaso Università Telematica, Italy.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 23 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective

Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

David Burt, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscape

Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The value of fieldwork in History of Science and Medicine

Various speakers.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices

Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 19 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

Sir Gregory Winter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Separate treatment of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in structural dynamics

Dr John Hickey, Trinity College Dublin.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart integral bridge design

Douglas Morley.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-parallel based deep learning for the model order reduction of parametrized partial differential equations

Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws

Dr Zifan Wang, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Accommodating magnitude and rate-limits in model reference adaptive control systems

Matthew Turner, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

Dr Danielle Shore .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution

Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

Ana Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

Professor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Railway Decarbonisation Technologies: Energy-efficient Train Operation and Renewable Traction Power Networks

Dr Zhongbei Tian, University of Birmingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The intersection of design, engineering and craft - what we learn by collaboration

David Knight, Cake Industries.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 02 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective".

Dr Ashley Roach.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron

Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730

Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

Prof Paul Barrett.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Energy-conserving equivariant GNN predictions of stiffness for lattice materials

Ivan Grega, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The world of modern technology and the natural world: how to negotiate the data driven world and nature itself

Neil Thomas, Atelier One.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 26 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation

Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How the fetal period became part of the life course: birth cohort studies and prenatal development from the 1960s to the present

Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.

Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research .

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 22 January 2024, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

Andreas Schaefer.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design methodologies for performance improvement of smart structures

Dr Najib Kacem, femto-st Institute.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

Professor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

AI Engineering as Design Engineering: Creating User-Centric AI Systems

Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room and online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data informativity: a new perspective on data-driven analysis and control

Professor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen.

JDB Seminar room.

Friday 12 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sense, Think, Act: Decision and Control, from Biology to Technology

Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

LT6 Seminar Room.

Tuesday 09 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vehicle-bridge interaction in railways: forward and inverse applications

Dr Charikleia Stoura, ETH.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven ML-enhanced approaches to support accelerated materials design for extreme conditions

Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and Data

Professor Alessandro Abate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical Research

Makoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University..

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

The science of pleasure in early modern South Asia

Neha Vermani (University of Sheffield).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.

Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 27 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia

Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Control-based Continuation – A new paradigm for testing nonlinear systems

Dr Ludovic Renson, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Folding tape springs and “tapered” springs

Jamie Clarkson.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 24 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

Prof Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies

Aidan Brown, Edinburgh University.

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

Dr Brendan Swain.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Plague and plantations: science, extraction, and global connections in Mauritius, 1899–1933

Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex Systems

Professor Murat Arcak, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley.

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

Prof Ian Fleming.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)

Erica Fischer (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 20 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Challenges in Bayesian inference and reliability with large numbers of uncertain parameters

Jan Koune, TU Delft.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare

Tom Bashford,CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robots

Enrico Franco, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering, JDB Seminar Room, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems

Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry

Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent Systems

Professor Wei Ren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside.

Department of Engineering, LT6, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.

Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modelling and analysis of electrical circuits with memristors for neuromorphic computing applications

Anne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering, LR5, and online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Towards a social(ist) model of disability? Exploring the Soviet roots of twentieth-century disability politics

Claire Shaw (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

Dr Tamar Makin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century

Rachel Feldberg (University of York).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Multi-criteria optimization of sustainable Timber-Concrete-Composite floor systems

Hossein Emami, Laval University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Theory of Stability Regions and its Practical Application in Online Stability Assessment of Large-Scale Power Grids

Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University.

Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Splicing the soul: brain anatomy and interspecies difference in early modern Europe

Philippa Carter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

Professor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Building stable tensegrities for engineering applications

Dr Ajay Harish, University of Manchester.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Baby Blues and BBC Television: Postpartum psychosis narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain

Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

Prof David Rubinsztein.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England

Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active noise control: what's the best you can do?

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Don’t crush concrete, reuse it! Designing new structures with saw-cut reused concrete pieces.

Célia Küpfer, EPFL.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Quantitative Microbiology With Smart Microscopy

Georgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Towards a physical botany: the ascent of water in plants in seventeenth-century studies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab

Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina

Silvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mathematical driver model with a Gaussian Process internal model to represent learning behaviour

Harry Fieldhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Symmetry, Group Theory and Applications to Structural Mechanics

Professor Alphose Zingoni, University of Cape Town.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:15-15:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The campaign against leprosy in contemporary China

Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

Prof Adam Nelson.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Welcome - introduction to the Group

Professor David Cebon.

JDB Teaching room, CUED.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds

Prof. Donghui Zhu,.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 29 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale design strategies for the progressive failure of architected materials and structures – Focus on interface cracking

Dr Federica Daghia, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"

Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales

Prof Saptarshi Basu.

LR3B, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 31 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The elastic stability and transitions between the unusual equilibrium states of a special hexagram ring

John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

Prof. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

LR3A, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials

Professor J.R. Greer, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy

Prof Zdenek Bazant .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics) Research and Applications

Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University.

LR6.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

AI for Sound

Prof. Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

Professor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talks - Poster Session

Group poster presentation.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Data-Driven Reduction of Non-Linearizable Dynamics for Solids, Fluids and Controls

Proffesor George Haller, ETH Zurich.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The Transfer Matrix Method revisited: computations and applications to dynamics

Professor Atanas Popov, University of Nottingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Geometry and mechanics of liquid crystal elastomers

Dr John Biggins, University of Cambridge .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 02 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix

Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 29 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Early Science and Medicine

The history of medicine in early South Asia: using digital humanities to quell the panic of facing huge manuscript traditions and the value of doing research in plain view

Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

Lynn Berry (Open University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CANCELLED - Nonlinear damping measurement in rotating fan and compressor disks

Dr Matt De Brett, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Tensegrity systems: a brief history

Geoff Morrow, StructureMode.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 26 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

Prof Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale

Prof Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I

Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 22 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Blood pressure measurement: the mystery of inferring arterial pressure from outside of the body

Kate Bassil, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

Prof William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Student seminar - Effect of Prestress on the Bistability of Deployable Hinges, and Design of optimized reinforced concrete floor grillages

James Whitely and Tara Venkatadri, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Early Science and Medicine

Digestion in Late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elizabeth Moreau (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

Prof. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Extraordinary Mechanics in Structures

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Monday 15 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment

Valentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 15 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brightening clouds for regional cooling

Edmund Reardon, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems

Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry

Sam Power, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Professional ethics, medical professionals and the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine

Oksana Vynnyk (University of Alberta).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72

Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 08 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Strategies for international electrification of heavy goods vehicles

Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Angus Low’s 3rd equation; serendipity in research

Professor Chris Burgoyne, University of Cambridge .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 05 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Coiled Muscle + Snapping Beams: From Nonlinear Mechanics to Miniature Robotic Design

Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

Aad van der Vaart (Delft).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation

Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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Burigede Liu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Challenging the Hunterian hegemony: rethinking the visual culture of pregnancy in mid-eighteenth-century Britain

CANCELLED

Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space

Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 01 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bogie Damage: Train or Track?

Dr Stuart Grassie, Railmeasurement Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Vector-based steering control in the insect brain

Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Advanced Tissue Biofabrication

Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School.

Room LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department, CB2 1PZ.

Friday 31 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of nature-inspired heterogeneous architected materials (HAMs)

Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Organisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The taming of the tape spring: Practical methods for storing and deploying structural flexible tubes

Dr Andrew Viquerat, University of Surrey.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Seeing opportunity in failure: can common issues in metal Additive Manufacture help deliver innovative material solutions?

Prof. Iain Todd from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

Melanie Zeilinger.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Mining ecologies: socio-natural landscapes of extraction and knowledge in the early modern period

Tina Asmussen (Bergbaumuseum Bochum – Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

Prof. Melinda Duer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain

Max Long (History, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 13 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Automatic customization of transparency mode and audio equalization in ear buds

Dr Ole Nielsen, BOSE.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The Shear Paradox

Dr Michele W.T. Mak, University of Leeds .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation

Alice Cicrello, TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology

Harrison Steel, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Medicine workers in the mountains: upland gatherers in the Min River Valley and China's natural medicinal products trade, 1890–1960

Dora Yao (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal

Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics by the sea with BBC Coast

Professor David Sharp, The Open University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The chase for fluid-structure interaction effects – An obsession or something important?

Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasis

Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

Prof. Alison Smith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Human perception of transient longitudinal vehicle motion

Samer Abdelmoeti, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Elastic Mechanism – Exploring the Effects of Elastic Deformation on Kinematic Motion in Mechanisms, and Squashing a doughnut – analysis of tape ring flattening

Charles Gai & Jamie Clarkson, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 24 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strength prediction of polymer composite laminates under uncertainties using theory-guided machine learning

Prof Pedro Camanho, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy

Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?

Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 20 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Soil-structure interactions during underground construction: measurement and monitoring

Dr Brian Sheil, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

Prof Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady state

Jonas Cremer, Stanford University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

Prof Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization

Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

Prof. Steve Brusatte.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Complexity in Vibrations and Dynamics – Phenomena and Methods

Professor Norbert Hoffmann, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Geometric compatibility: from simple mathematics to complex materials, structures and mechanics

Dr Fen Fang, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data

Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Multistable morphing structures

Professor Yang Li, Wuhan University .

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Feedback system analysis: back to the future

Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

'Scandinavian, safe and sanitary!' The commercialisation of menstruation in Norway and Sweden, 1940–1990

Camilla Røstvik (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

Professor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

Dr. Josephine Bryant.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Zero Carbon Cement

Dr Cyrille Dunant and Professor Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 03 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

Prof Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Space: The Final Front-queer

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age?

Professor Mark Girolami FREng GRSE.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Monday 30 January 2023, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is the clarinet like a violin?

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Using Architected Materials to Enable Novel Properties

Professor Yunlan Zhang, University of Texas .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Computationally derived correlations between segregation, microstructure variations and process-induced cracks in AM

Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University.

Meeting ID: 898 8054 7075 .

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

He Bian (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability

Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer

Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A spectrum of physics-informed machine learning approaches for problems in structural dynamics

Professor Lizzy Cross, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Design, Analysis and Applications of Well-behaved Non-linear Structures

Dr Mark Schenk, University of Bristol.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting

Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Smarter materials for simpler robotics

Andrew Conn.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Instabilities in kirigami structures

Dr Marcelo Dias, University of Edinburgh.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 09 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Background and uses of guided ultrasonics

Dr David Alleyne, CEO, Guided Ultrasonics Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks

Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Active Rheology and Stiffening Control of cementitious materials

Professor Geert De Schutter, Ghent University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Probabilistic sensitivity using Fisher information and its symplectic eigenvalue decomposition

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A Swiss Structures seminar from FlexLab

Luna Lin, Fani Derveni, and Michael Gomez, EPFL Lausanne.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What machine learning can do for (meta)materials-by-design

Dr Sid Kumar, Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Andy Lin, MLG.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

Dr David Willer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Concrete Canvas – from university project to global company

Peter Brewin, Conrete Canvas.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 18 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective

Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On motor intelligence for soft robots

Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future

Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

Prof Fang Xie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Development and validation of a user-friendly hybrid prediction tool for railway induced vibration

Professor Geert Degrande, KU Leuven.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Snap through Dynamics and some strategies for morphing

Professor Dominic Vella, University of Oxford.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 11 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy

Dr Matteo Seita, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control

Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

Prof Roisin Owens.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tyre wear modelling of multi-axle trucks

Chen Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Theory and the Creation of Structures; Using the concepts of Airy, Maxwell, Michell, Heyman, Calladine, Pellegrino, Guest and McRobie to create structures

Bill Baker, SOM & University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets

Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The second generation of meta-learning methods

Massimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge.

Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective

Ms Miranda Lowe.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery

Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Sunday 30 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Identifying performance limits for active noise reduction in nonlinear systems

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Understanding Tensegrity with an Energy Function

Professor Simon Guest.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 28 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion

Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface

Andy Wang CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes

Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

How silence became 'outdated': secrecy, anonymity and artificial insemination by donor, 1950s–1990s

Tinne Claes (KU Leuven).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

Sir Paul Nurse.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Graphic Statics as a Legendre Transform

Professor Allan McRobie.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 21 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment

Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologies

Tamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Early Science and Medicine

Authorship and mathematical skills between artisans and scholars: the geometries of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637–1714)

Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A linearised hybrid FE-SEA method for built-up structures with nonlinear joints under random loading

Henry Allen, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

Manabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles

Prof Michael Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Introduction to the DVRG

Prof Hugh Hunt, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Welcome to term and to new PhD students

Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids

Dr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University.

LR6.

Friday 09 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Architected Materials Beyond the Laboratory: harnessing self-architecture and exploring extreme conditions

Carlos M Portela, MIT.

LR5.

Friday 01 July 2022, 10:00-11:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Controlling imperfect robot swarms

Hector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Clamping Stresses in Reinforced Concrete

Evan Bentz, University of Toronto.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CVDC Truck Demo

Dr Francesco Amoruso, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upcycling Structural Design – new developments

Corentin Fivet, EPFL.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits

Yuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside.

JBD seminar room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster Session

Speaker to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

BRE Structural Testing and Investigation

David Stewart, BRE Group.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible Structure

Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Lagrange and Hamilton for damped systems with an unexpected link to quantum mechanics

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Crack-based assessment and retrofit of concrete members

Boyan Mihaylov, University of Liege.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Fundamental Limits of Learning with Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Friday 27 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systems

Monika Jozsa, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

A political ecology of horse breeding in early modern Spain and Spanish colonial America

Kathryn Renton (UCLA).

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering

Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some model testing experience of a floating wind turbine platform in a wave tank

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Form and Structure

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Form and Structure

Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood

Prof Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation University of Maryland.

Meeting ID: 849 1452 9444 .

Friday 20 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makers

Alessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 2376 0684 Passcode: 986863).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bowed-string transients: a challenging nonlinear oscillation problem

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Digital twinning of infrastructures using statistical finite element method (statFEM)

Eky Febrianto, University of Glasgow.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Computational Imaging and Sensing: Theory and Applications

Prof. Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required

Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Intelligent Structures for Low Noise Environments

Dr Jordan Cheer, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Compact Folding of Flat Arrays Composed of Panels with Uniform Thickness

Zhong You, University of Oxford.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 06 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins

Prof Pilar Ariza, University of Sevilla.

LR5, Baker Building, CUED.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop Systems

Masaki Inoue, Keio University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 892 4602 0075 Passcode: 913765).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Understanding the dynamic soil-structure interaction between buildings and nearby underground railway tunnels

Mr Tisal Edirisinghe, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On Minimax Adaptive Control

Anders Rantzer, Lund University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 832 4377 0774 Passcode: 684832).

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization: New Perspectives for Network Systems Analysis

Daniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 837 4007 0422 Passcode: 081031).

Thursday 21 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

University of Cambridge.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination

Praneeth Namburi, MIT.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 825 7950 4541 Passcode: 123551).

Thursday 14 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted

Dr Ulas Cilingir, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Ørsted.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 13 April 2022, 19:00-20:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cells

Corentin Briat, ETH-Zürich.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 3342 6333 Passcode: 367773).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Advanced Sliding Mode Control

Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 0420 7880 Passcode: 578888).

Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery

Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

New Frontiers in Sensing for Infrastructure Management

Sriram Narasimhan, UCLA.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 18 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

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Speaker to be confirmed.

CUED LR4.

Friday 18 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Organised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling Drug Transport With Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

Professor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu | UCL School of Pharmacy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Early Science and Medicine

Migrant miners and empires: the social technology of tin mining in the age of global trade

Yijun Wang (New York University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Decarbonising the UK’s Heavy Goods Vehicles with an Electric Road System

Daniel Ainalis and Christopher de Saxe.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Challenging construction through computational and digital fabrication

Mariana Popescu, TU Delft.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 11 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically-instructive Scaffolds to Steer Tissue Regeneration: Merging Mechaniobiology with Biofabrication

Prof Lorenzo Moroni, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department. Maastricht University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 11 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts

Bart Besselink, University of Groningen.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 842 0121 0459 Passcode: 338605).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Atmosphere-ocean interactions: Global-scale impacts on tropospheric chemistry

Professor Lucy Carpenter.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

Wayne Soon (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Monday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The OAK | Prototype of a concrete shell as building floor for circular sustainable construction

Robin Oval, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 04 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems

Prof Garth Wells, Hibbit Professor of Solid Mechanics, CUED.

CUED LR5.

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Learning-based control of soft robots

Thomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 839 0458 8067 Passcode: 572898).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The FOCUS project: real-time monitoring to inform underground construction operations

Dr Brian Sheil, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Oxford.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College.

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 19:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Photosynthesis on an electrode

Dr Jenny Zhang .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317

Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Rail corrugation: a problem solved?

Stuart Grassie .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales

Prof Carlos M Portela, School of Engineering, MIT.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Data-driven stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems with noisy data

Meichen Guo, University of Groningen.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom: Meeting ID: 875 1060 6963, Passcode: 661347).

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Micp from micro to macro: towards bio-inspired geotechnics

Dr Alexandra Clarà Saracho, Affiliated Lecturer in Engineering, King's College, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Room 5, Baker Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777

Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Cambridge vaccine, targeting SARS-CoV-2 variants and related Coronaviruses

Professor Jonathan Heeney, Lab of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 21 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Recent advances in Statistical Machine Learning for problems in Applied Mechanics

Dr Alice Cicirello .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Textile reinforcement: Research and application

Philipp Preinstorfer, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 18 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics

Prof Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 18 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence

Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge).

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Lessons for Tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Treatment from the Zebrafish

Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan | FRS FMedSci .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037

Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Monday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc

Speaker to be confirmed.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Sunday 13 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Signature modes and formants: comparing stringed instrument

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics

Prof Richard James, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3752 1667.

Friday 11 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Challenges from pipe installation to rehabilitation

Dr Haitao Lan - Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 19:00-20:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Protein Nutrition, Healthy Ageing and Climate Change: How Do We Combine The Three?

Dr. Oliver Witard | University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Insects and the infrastructure of Empire: tropical agriculture and biological control in early 20th-century Hawai'i

Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations.

Prof. Giles E. D. Oldroyd, FRS, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 07 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Passenger Discomfort during Longitudinal Vehicle Motion

Samer Abdelmoeti .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Data-driven Approaches for Structural Optimisation

Ahmet Oguzhan Yuksel, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reconceptualising decarbonisation: Understanding UK industrial decarbonisation through the lens of megaprojects

Samual Stephenson, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Do we have enough energy resources for a net-zero 2050?

Jennifer Hawkin, University of Cambridge.

Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link).

Friday 04 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Designing vascular networks for tissue engineering

Andrew Guy.

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Biofabrication techniques for vascular graft and network

Dr Alex Justin .

CUED LR4.

Friday 04 February 2022, 14:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

Sir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Early Science and Medicine

Contagion and the politics of maritime quarantine during the Marseille plague (1720)

Philippa Hellawell (National Archives, UK).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Decarbonising Road Freight

Prof David Cebon CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 28 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Epidemic mitigation through testing and optimal urban mobility

Muhammad Umar B Niazi, KTH.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

Ayah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

Dr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

Location: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

Monday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30